Dune Professionals

Daniel NeidichChief Executive Officer, Partner and Member of the Investment Committee

With
more than 25 years of opportunistic real estate investment
experience, Mr. Daniel Neidich is one of the pioneers who helped
define and develop this market. He has built and led
investment teams managing institutional real estate private equity
funds beginning with the first Goldman Sachs Whitehall fund in
1991.

Prior to founding Dune in 2004, Mr.
Neidich spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs where he was a member of
the firm's Management Committee, Vice Chairman's Council, co-head
of the Merchant Banking Division and Chairman of the Whitehall
Investment Committee. In these roles, Mr. Neidich managed teams of
professionals, fostered talent and developed a successful
institutional culture in a dynamic investing market. Mr. Neidich
joined Goldman Sachs in 1978 in the Real Estate Banking Department,
where he worked on a broad range of investment banking activities
for Goldman Sachs' corporate and real estate clients. In
1984, Mr. Neidich became a partner of Goldman Sachs and, in 1990,
he became head of Goldman Sachs' Real Estate Department. In
1992, Mr. Neidich formed the Real Estate Principal Investment Area,
in 1998 he became co-head of the Merchant Banking Division, in 1999
he joined the firm's Management Committee and in 2000 he joined the
firm's Vice Chairman's Council.

In 1991, under Mr. Neidich's
direction, Goldman Sachs raised the first Whitehall fund to invest
in real estate opportunities. Under his leadership, the Whitehall
Funds raised over $12 billion of total equity and purchased over
$50 billion of real estate interests worldwide.

Mr. Neidich has held leadership
positions in industry organizations for decades. He is a
Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, a multidisciplinary real
estate forum that facilitates an open exchange of ideas,
information, and experience among industry leaders and policy
makers. He is the former Chairman of the International
Advisory Board of the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard
University and a member of Columbia Business School's MBA Real
Estate Program Advisory Board. Mr. Neidich is a former
Chairman of the Real Estate Roundtable and a former Trustee of the
International Council of Shopping Centers as well as a former
member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New
York, the International Advisory Board of Eurohypo AG and the Board
of Directors of General American Investors Company, Inc.
Through leadership roles and involvement with these industry
organizations, Mr. Neidich has developed a network of key
relationships with leading global institutions and other market
participants that spans the real estate capital markets and
property markets across multiple geographies.

Mr. Neidich serves on the boards of
Prep for Prep (where he is a member of the Executive Committee),
The Child Mind Institute (where he is a member of the Audit and
Finance Committee) and the Trust for Governors Island. He is a
former member of The Hotchkiss School's Investment Committee, the
Board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy and the Museum of
Modern Art. Mr. Neidich received an M.B.A. from Stanford University
Graduate School of Business in 1974 and a B.A. from Yale University
in 1972.